Wednesday, October 23, 2024 – The Gaza Strip

Adi Ronen Argov

Oct 22, 20243 min read

Since noon, October 22nd until noon, October 23, 2024:

‣ 74 killed and 130 wounded persons brought to hospitals;

‣ Since October 7, 2023:

◦ 42,792 persons killed;

◦ 100, 412 persons wounded.

Northern Strip

19th day of siege. 770 persons killed. Over 1,000 persons wounded. Dozens missing.

‣ Forced eviction of women and children concentrated in a sandy crater, surrounded with tanks and weapons. They are expelled under threat.

‣ Mass arrests of men over 16 years of age. Siege and attacks against Kamal Adwan and Al Awda Hospitals. Indonesian Hospital closed down. During the night and morning, 31 persons killed in Jabalia alone, drones patrol ceaselessly and fire at whoever comes out and does not evacuate the area. Empty structures exploded.

‣ Shrouds ran out, Ministry of Health calls out: if no medication nor food, at least let through blanket to cover the dead;

‣ Booster doses of Polio vaccine in the Northern Strip turned back;

‣ B’Tselem (Israeli human rights organization) calls the goings-on in the Northern Strip ethnic cleansing;

‣ 6 Al Jazeera reporters reviewing the going-on in the north have been declared as Islamic Jihad and Hamas collaborators without showing evidence. The network rejected such accusations.

1. Jabalia refugee camp and town:

‣ Aerial bombings;

‣ Exploded buildings west of the camp;

‣ Artillery fire at the camp;

‣ Bombed house in Jabalia Al Balad, 4 persons killed (children);

‣ Another house bombed, 4 persons killed;

‣ Drone fire, one person killed;

‣ Entire residential block destroyed;

‣ Bombing, a child and his mother killed;

‣ Of the 32 persons caught under rubble in the camp (of which we reported yesterday), 18 were rescued, 14 remained caught without being able to rescue them in spite of their cries for help.

2. Beit Lahia:

‣ Houses exploded near Kamal Adwan Hospital;

‣ Artillery fire;

‣ Displaced persons chased away under threat of gunfire from Al Fakhura School;

‣ Machine-gun fire at houses;

‣ Drone fire at Kamal Adwan compound; physician and male nurse killed;

‣ Ill patient died at Indonesian Hospital due to lack of oxygen and medication;

‣ Artillery fire at main street;

‣ Artillery fire from the north;

‣ Destruction of all streets around Kamal Adwan;

‣ Inside Kamal Adwan compound, 30 bodies of killed persons, cannot be buried;

‣ Drone fire, wounded persons;